LHRIC’s eChalk User Group Conference

1. LHRIC’s eChalk User Group Conference December 16th, 2008 Mary Lynn Collins, LHRIC Model Schools Coordinator Jennifer Ozanne, Vice President, eChalk Adam Schneider, NY Project Manager, eChalk

2. E Rate & Internet Safety • E Rate Application Procedure • Technology Plans • Last date to submit plans and an 09-10 budget - JUNE 15th, 2009 • Internet Safety Bill Passed • School need to teach online safety, cyber bulling, and knowledge of sexual predators. • State wide Model Schools is addressing this

3. eChalk New Offerings • Most of the items will not affect LHRIC districts in the sense that we are all renewals. Want our districts to know that now there are other offerings. • Districts can now request a “custom design” for the site to be embeded into the application at an additional cost. • SIS Integration offers a host of possibilities.

4. Multiple Onramps to Enter A Village of Possibilities eChalkAnytime eChalkClassView eChalkWebvantage eChalkPLC Exploring the Ways to Work with eChalk

5. eChalk Webvantage and PLC • New offerings for new customers to start with a subset of the eChalk application • eChalk Webvantage • Provides consistent and professional looking websites for district and schools or individual schools • Enables districts to promote district vision & leadership competency • Creates transparency for budget & BOE oversight • eChalk PLC • Enables faculty & staff to build educational teams that can easily collaborate and communicate with each other across a school / district • Enables district administrators to connect with school members across the district on important issues, new policies, standards & expectations, etc. • Gives school leaders a vehicle to communicate about ideas, philosophies, best practices, etc.Provides consistent and professional looking websites for district and schools or individual schools

6. NEW! Design Services • Custom Sites For School Districts • Custom homepage design allows a district to have a completely unique look and feel that they can manage and update with the eChalk software • Project includes: Requirements gathering, creation of 3 sample designs, modification of design based on feedback, delivery of custom template • 100 hours of design, consultation and implementation services • Cost is around $15,000

7. Integration Services - Improved TechnologiesData Transfer Data Certification Bulk Class/ Student Roster Load eChalk SFT eChalk SFT - LDAP SIF Web Services

8. Integration Services Data Transfer • Data Certification • One time charge per district • eChalk Data Specialist will provide the district with requirements for data fields, format and processing necessary to complete transfer process and will test data to provide certification • If district lack experience or capacity to meet requirements, consulting can be purchased to complete the certification process • Data Transfer • Annual charge per site • Enables transfer from SIS, LDAP/Active Director, HR database or other data source through the applicable transmission methods • Exact service plan will be finalized during implementation process

9. Integration Services Other Integration Services • Grades and Attendance Transfer • Annual per site charge • Available with eChalkAnytime only • Adds grades and attendance information to data transfer to allow students and/or parents to access this information within eChalk • Transmission must be via eChalkSFT, SIF or Web Services

10. eChalk’s Latest Upgrades 8.5-9.1 • Ability to add multiple images to RTE • RSS - Subscription on District & School Home Pages. • Create a link to RSS feed - Resources • Layout Manager available to ALL districts and schools • Parent registration for public classes • Multiple Languages on home page

11. eChalk’s Latest Upgrades 8.5-9.1 Cont’d • Google Analytics • Email Filter • My Applications • Storage Upgrade • 50 MB of file storage for every user • 100 MB of email storage for every user • 50 MB of School & 50 MB of District file storage • 500 MB of hosting storage • Blogging for Admin, Teachers, Students

12. LHRIC eChalk Course Offerings 2009 • Webinar - Creating Blogs for Classroom Instruction 1/20/2009 • Layout Manager and Web Design - full day course for web masters. 1/26/2009 • Webinar -Google Analytics -tracking the data on your website and using the information to position content appropriately. 2/11/2009 • Please visit www.lhric.org - Calendar Events

13. Sneak Peak at New Developments December 16, 2008

14. eChalk 10.0 • Charlene Noll - VP of eChalk Product Design

15. Web Publishing Features in Development • New Themes • More publishing options • Additional Color Choices • Consistent Font Style and Size • More Layout and Navigation Choices • Announcements • Highlight an announcement for selected members (e.g. all 12th grade students upon login will see the announcement in a pop-up) • Multimedia Tools • Podcasts • Photo Gallery • Slideshow Creator • Content Library - ability for user to access any resource from any area (Groups, Class Pages, My Account Files, Hosting) and push it to any content area.

16. Class Features in Development • Multimedia Tools • Podcasts • Photo Gallery • Slideshow Creator • More publishing options • Additional color choices - each school/district theme will have multiple publishing templates for class pages. • Layout options - teachers will be able to drag and drop components on the class page. They will be able to hide componets they do not want live. (Similar to an iGoogle interface) • Rename all areas (I.e. change name of Work and Events etc.) • Option to view class page without having to log out • RSS capability • Content Library

17. Class Features in Development • 2-Way Homework Drop Box Interaction - • provide for comments back and forth between student and teacher as well as the ability to allow students to re-submit homework. • Upgraded Discussion Forum & Survey Tool • Site Level Grade & New Attendance Publishing • ability to sync from attendance and grades from SIS system within eChalk • Upgraded Feature Set • Calendar: New scheduling options, timed events, shared events from other calendars (pull events from all calendars). Will also have the option to create “units of work” and archive within the system. • Resources: Hierarchical folders and the ability to set start and end dates with folders/resources. Archive resources. • Announcement: Support for multiple announcements with start/end dates

18. Exciting new EmailRedesign in Progress…(Beta version release within the next months)

19. New Email Web Client Improved UI (looks more like Outlook) Multiple active message windows Multiple levels of hierarchy in email folders Auto-completion of email addresses Reading pane Enhanced email attachment process Automatic saving of draft messages Updated design of Address Book

20. Upgraded Email Client: Inbox Drag & Drop messages into folders Support of multiple levels of folders Reading Pane Options

21. Multiple Window Support Open multiple emails & compose tabs at once

22. File Attachments Enhanced file attachment and download process

23. Address Messages Auto-fill the address bar as your typing

24. Beta Option